Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts

Friday, May 14, 2010

Streaming Media East 2010, News Round Up and a Qik Howcast Interview


I'm back from New York City after a couple of very busy days at Streaming Media East 2010. While there were no major industry shaking announcements this time around, there was a fair amount of buzz around Adobe's Flash Access 2.0 delivery news and video support on the iPad using the HTML5 video tag. Like every other Streaming Media conference, this event brought together many of the top leaders in the online video space, TV and advertising execs, marketers, content owners,  online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators, CDNs, bloggers and several of this years' 2010 Streaming Media All-Stars. I spent a considerable amount of time on the exhibit floor talking with online video platform providers, technology gurus, video evangelists, fellow bloggers and friends I've met at the many industry events over the years. I didn't make it to Content Delivery Summit or the NY Video May Meetup due to my travel schedule, but I hope to catch up with some of the people who I missed this time at the next Streaming Media West conference in November.

The panel session I moderated, Media Framework: Video Publishing Platforms, on Tuesday, May 11th went well and had great attendance, considering that the conference had three tracks. I'll save my analysis of the session for a post when the video is available, which should be on demand in the coming weeks.

Many thanks to Dan Rayburn, Joel Unickow, Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen and the management and staff of Information Today Inc. for putting together another great show, and congratulations on the launch of their new website OnlineVideo.net. A big thanks as well to my good friend Mark Robertson for hanging out with me, working with me on team coverage of the event and showing me a great time New York City. My thanks as well to the folks at Sorenson Media for sponsoring the Tuesday night Streaming Media All-Stars event at the Mets game. This was my first trip to New York City, and having experienced it now I understand why so many people come to this great city.

I interviewed quite a number of people, who will be featured in upcoming posts, including:
While I planned to Tweet and stream more live video, I did stream only this one interview with Jason Leibman, CEO and Co-founder of Howcast live on Qik.com. Jason talks about the evolution of his company, where Howcast is within that market and why every company should be a media company. Look for an edited version of this interview on Reel SEO in the next week or so.


As with previous Streaming Media news coverage, I've put together a round up of news, analysis and press releases from Streaming Media East. Stay tuned for more videos and upcoming blog posts from the event.

Analysis
Beet.TV interviews
TV Worldwide Video Coverage
News Releases
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Next Stop, New York City for Streaming Media East 2010 #smeast2010

In just a few short hours I'll be boarding a plane from Oakland to New York City to attend the annual Streaming Media East conference and exhibition, held May 11-12th at the Hilton New York. I'm moderating a panel discussion, Media Framework: Video Publishing Platforms in the afternoon on Tuesday. For that session, I'll be joined by Bismarck Lepe of Ooyala, Ron Yekutiel of Kaltura, Daniel Webster of Media at Synaptic Digital and Jason Liebman of Howcast. We'll be discussing how the features, functionality and cost vary video publishing platforms, to give content owners a better understanding of what they need and what they should expect to pay for managing content.

The Streaming Media East show is now in its 13th year, and is one of the longest running conferences and exhibitions dedicated to the business and technology of online video. The wide variety of attendees range from content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators, and others who come to see and hear the latest online video technology but, more importantly, to discuss the business models that are coming of age. The pre-conference workshops and the Content Delivery Summit will be held today, May 10th.

I'll be live streaming updates via Qik.com as well as various updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other network where I'm syndicating my feed. You can follow the Streaming Media East Twitter updates here: Streaming Media (StrMediaShows) on Twitter with the hashtag #SMeast10. I just checked the feed and I see a lot of familiar faces gearing up for the big event as well.

I've packed portable and easy-to-use online video publishing tools (Kodak Zi8, microphones, tripod, cables, connectors, batteries, etc) to capture interviews throughout the two-day event. I'll also be joined by my good friend Mark Robertson, Publisher of Reel SEO.com and 2010 Streaming Media All-Star. We've confirmed a number of interviews already with a variety of online video executives from Encoding.com, Kontiki, VMIX, Sorenson Media, Wowza, and more to come. Stay tuned for updates and press releases from many of the companies participating in Streaming Media East, which should start hitting the wire within the next few hours and continue throughout the week.

For those who will be in New York, Dan Rayburn posted a reminder about the NY Video Meetup Tonight At The Hilton Hotel In NYC at 6:30pm. Five local online video startups (PlayOn, Dynamo Player, SundaySky, VMIX, Kyte and Interlude) each get five minutes each to demo their new products live (no PPT slides) in front of hundreds of local peers. After the demos, join us at the Bridges Bar in the hotel lobby for drinks (cash bar) and networking. More details at NYVideo.org or follow NY Video Meetup (NYVM) on Twitter.

Next stop, New York City!
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